Guest Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 I have a very strong feeling there's a thread on this somewhere on the site but I genuenly can't find it, so I'm just going to go ahead and ask: what programs do y'all use to download videos from YouTube and other video hosting sites? I use a website called y2mate, but it keeps redirecting me to all sorts of weird sites and triggers Avast warnings every time I use it, so obviously I'd like something safer and more serious :P . I'm on an Opera browser by the way. (As a side note, links to video downloaders could be a nice follow-up post in that stickied video software thread 🙂) Quote Link to comment
liesjeversteven 1,826 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 video downloadhelper plugin for Firefox and Chrome. Another one that works well is youtube-dl, but that's terminal based. Kyuu and Marco 2 Quote Link to comment
emmawets 1 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 atube catcher is the best but you have to keep the updates or it stop working its free Quote Link to comment
Kyuu 6,097 Posted March 28, 2020 👑 Administrator Share Posted March 28, 2020 YouTube-DL is the de facto standard open source YouTube (and other) video downloader. https://youtube-dl.org/ However, it's a command line only tool as liesjeversteven mentioned. But this is the program / library most all online YouTube downloaders and such use and it's very actively updated. FallingDusk, GoingGreen and TheWhiteRazor 3 Quote Link to comment
mjbunce60 6 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 I use a program called 4K video downloader. Quote Link to comment
dragan 30 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 I use Ytmp3 https://ytmp3.cc/en13/ It's actually for converting music videos on Youtube into a waveform format but they have an mp4 option as well. There's a limit on how much they can convert at once but it's free. Quote Link to comment
iphone 57 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 I started using the program Jdownloader2 after my browser plugins stopped working correctly with Pornhub. It's worked flawlessly so far https://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2 Quote Link to comment
Nephrite 48 Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 On Android, I strongly recommend the TubeMate app. Have been using it for over 8 years now. Has all you could possibly need. Works on lot of sites other than YouTube too. Quote Link to comment
FallingDusk 308 Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 I third the https://youtube-dl.org/ suggestion. (as Maki and liesjeversteven have already mentioned) But more importantly I haven't seen anyone say it yet: This definitely wasn't a stupid question. It's fine to not know things, and this is by no means a topic I anyone is expected to be familiar with. Hope one of the solutions here is helpful for you ^^, Kyuu 1 Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 14 hours ago, FallingDusk said: I third the https://youtube-dl.org/ suggestion. (as Maki and liesjeversteven have already mentioned) But more importantly I haven't seen anyone say it yet: This definitely wasn't a stupid question. It's fine to not know things, and this is by no means a topic I anyone is expected to be familiar with. Hope one of the solutions here is helpful for you ^^, Yeah, I guess I just saw no one else asking, so I got the feeling it was something everyone knew but me xD . Quote Link to comment
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